Forms

I managed to get almost all my forms sent off now for the apprenticeship. I still have an online thing I have to fill out but that is 99% done. I am just having a slight problem which I am trying to fix and will most likely get done tomorrow.

It seems that my sleeping pattern is royally messed up at the moment as I got up at 10:30am this morning after going to bed around 4am and yet I am still awake at 2:42am this morning writing this post. I am really going to need to get this sorted soon (I'll give it till around the 10th of August though probably). The problem is, I get really bored anything past 1am as everybody else has been sensible enough to GO TO BED but it seems that I have not. So I stay awake, watching random films whilst playing random games (usually Rift) and just waste my time. Sadly, this then means that I end up in bed as the sun rises and don't wake up till gone 2PM and the cycle starts again.

An hour on the motorway - that's if I could drive.

Anyway, enough about that. I have got in contact with the other apprentices now and am trying to kickstart the whole "relocating process". Oh yeah, I forgot that I hadn't explained about the relocating process. Basically: I live in London. My base location is Basingstoke. That's a two hour or so commute for me as I, at this current point in time, cannot drive. I also will not get reimbursed for travelling to my base location so it would make a lot of sense for me to be living in Basingstoke.

A 112 mile round-trip!

Sadly, things get a tad more complex. Although my base location is Basingstoke, Visa have offices in: Reading, Paddington and Middlesex (my current area!). This means that I will be commuting a lot.

Basically I think the plan is to end up in Basingstoke. As I said before, I do not get reimbursed for travelling to Basingstoke but I do if I travel to any of the others. Sadly, I start out for the first five weeks in Paddington. I am trying to relocate at the same time as everybody else although the logical thing for me to do would be to stay in the same place at the moment as it's only a half-hour tube journey to Paddington from my current location. It is a MUCH longer (try three and a half hours or so) from Basingstoke. What I am worried about is if all the other apprentices move and get flatshares together then I will have to go and find my own room-mate which is a tad annoying and also a tad impractical.

I am aware of this slowly becoming a longer and longer post so I will cut it here but this is the sort of stuff that I am having to deal with at the moment. Luckily, I am not getting too stressed about it!